Sliding coherence window technique for hierarchical detection of continuous gravitational waves

Details Sliding coherence window technique for hierarchical detection of continuous gravitational waves Sliding coherence window technique for hierarchical detection of continuous gravitational waves

2011-01-27

arxiv.org/abs/1101.5396v2

Phys.Rev.D83:122003,2011

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

11 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevD.83.122003

A novel hierarchical search technique is presented for all-sky surveys for continuous gravitational-wave sources, such as rapidly spinning nonaxisymmetric neutron stars. Analyzing yearlong detector data sets over realistic ranges of parameter space using fully coherent matched-filtering is computationally prohibitive. Thus more efficient, so-called hierarchical techniques are essential. Traditionally, the standard hierarchical approach consists of dividing the data into nonoverlapping segments of which each is coherently analyzed and subsequently the matched-filter outputs from all segments are combined incoherently. The present work proposes to break the data into subsegments shorter than the desired maximum coherence time span (size of the coherence window). Then matched-filter outputs from the different subsegments are efficiently combined by sliding the coherence window in time: Subsegments whose timestamps are closer than coherence window size are combined coherently, otherwise incoherently. Compared to the standard scheme at the same coherence time baseline, data sets longer by about 50-100% would have to be analyzed to achieve the same search sensitivity as with the sliding coherence window approach. Numerical simulations attest to the analytically estimated improvement.

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